Going solar

There are many considerations to “going solar”, among them, practical, economic, environmental and political considerations. In this section, we offer you an overview what it takes, and means, to “go solar”. We don’t pretend that going solar is for everyone, although if you are a committed environmentalist — as SCD.Com Editor Christof Demont-Heinrich is, we believe there are few more concrete and effective ways to grow the “green economy” and the environmental movement in the United States and globally than to put panels on your home and/or garage and power your home and car that way!

A Georgia HOA has rejected David and Angela Dobs' request to install solar panels on their roof. The latest proposal is to place them on the roof at the far left.
The following guest column is written by Dav...

Activists scrawled a graffiti message over the South Shore Heights HOA entry sign. Things are heating up again in an Omaha, Neb. HOA where a resident, Timothy Adams, is being sued for installing a solar PV sys...

A Nebraska man being sued by his HOA for putting solar on his home is taking is case to the public with a billboard ad. About a year ago, we wrote about a case in which a Texas HOA sued a homeowner for putting...

SolarCity is acquiring the East Coast’s largest residential solar installer and is expanding to serve Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The company will acquire the residential solar install...

It took more than six months between signing the contract and getting the system online, but Littleton, Colo. resident Pete Dignan's house is now 100-percent powered by solar energy. Pete Dignan, a homeowner ...

Americans in nearly a quarter of all U.S. states will be able to go solar while skipping the big upfront costs of buying a system thanks to SolarCity's recently announced expansion of residential solar leasing ...